Law of the case here sets some legal teeth on edge because Bundy was already behind the eight ball of a court order, but if we’re talking about overlawyered, this is yet another case of making a federal case of something that shouldn’t be. Bundy is clumsy and crochety in refusing to recognize the existence of federal govt. when what shouldn’t be recognized here is their jurisdiction.

This is proprietary land, not a federal enclave. The feds want to evict Bundy. So they should go to state court like anyone else with a tresspass action. Now a fast growing state like Nevada that basically has ranchers like him in the rear view mirror might not have the time of day for him in state court either. The Clark County sheriff couldn’t be bothered. But the Nevada politicians who have taken up his cause recognize this as a case of federal overreach. Where they were for the first 20 years of his case . . .

The federal case here is that he doesn’t just have ‘grandfathered rights’ as some instinctively recognize, but property in the water on the ranch under split estate principles. If the feds are regulating that to disutility, that is a taking. Sadly, the process for vindicating that principle took Wayne Hage over 20 years that included a similar confiscation of his cattle and he didn’t live to see it come to fruition. That is a travesty and it doesn’t surprise me that it breeds contempt for the law.

brian

But that didn’t happen. It was only the BLM guys who were called “snipers.” The terms used matter in ratcheting up the conflict.

To believe there weren’t is to be naive of law enforcement tactics in the extreme.

I prefer to believe in facts as opposed to conjecture.

Oh and that SOME of the BLM agents were out in the open with their scoped rifles was a show of force. Had the spaghetti (foolishly) hit the fan, you can bet the ones that weren’t in the open (yes, I’d say there were some – only a fool in law enforcement would have shown all their cards) would have engaged from their concealed positions. To believe there weren’t is to be naive of law enforcement tactics in the extreme.

I have seen Facebook feeds linking this picture and describing the fellow as a “true patriot.”

http://boingboing.net/2014/04/15/the-most-mindblowing-photograp.html

(He doesn’t work for the BLM either.)

gitcarver, please elaborate. What is actually going on?